Re: [FRIAM] CNET reviews Psystar's Snow Leopard-based Open(Q) | Crave - CNET

russell standish wrote: OSX on a VM partition would be fantastic news for me, if the price is right. If that comes to fruition, there won't be any more $25 OSX upgrades from Apple, that's for sure. Fedora 11 and Ubuntu 9.10 work on MacBooks, but not on external drives. The hybrid GPT/MBR

Re: [FRIAM] Cloud computing

Owen Densmore wrote: I'd fire anyone having a company spreadsheet or document on their laptop and not in the cloud. Or company email on their computer (POP rather than IMAP). It is just too expensive and dangerous. LANL, for example, mandates full disk encryption on hard drives. Hard

Re: [FRIAM] flocking windmills

Roger Critchlow wrote: Well, I better keep my voodoo fluid dynamics speculations to myself in the future. Nah. The venue for objection was the APS meeting in Minneapolis... FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays

Re: [FRIAM] Some Facts about Arrays!

plissa...@comcast.net wrote: There is NO SUCH THING AS A BOW WAVE in incompressible continuum flows. Wind farms only involve incompressible flows? FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St.

Re: [FRIAM] Wind Farm Comprssible Flow!

plissa...@comcast.net wrote: I didn't know that wind turbines experienced compressible flow. This makes all my papers and books on the subject wrong, although the operating turbines designed by my codes don't seem to know this! Is it that compressible flow is a small influence, or not

Re: [FRIAM] Array Interference

plissa...@comcast.net wrote: I was concerned at his naive statement that the power increases because the rotational speed increases. Wouldn't it be remarkable for these Caltech guys (ok, trained in aerodynamics but researching biopropulsion) to not hold torque fixed in their models? Marcus

Re: [FRIAM] Array Interference

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[FRIAM] fluid dynamics and art

Hi, Steve wrote: SimTable (tm) is always in need of more notional models to demonstrate it's utility across a wide variety of domains, especially those likely to be involved in public-policy decisions. Also, the SF Complex art crowd might be interested in looking at interactive exhibits using

[FRIAM] wtf

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Re: [FRIAM] Santa Fe Complex lands Defense contract - The Santa Fe New Mexican

Thin edge of the wedge!! :-) FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org

Re: [FRIAM] GDP vs National Debt by Country |

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Re: [FRIAM] Virtual-world genetic algorithm example... help!

Russ Abbott wrote: In a system like this though, you always have to start with some primitives. It's really matter of where you can get from the primitives and whether there is a steadily uphill (in terms of fitness) path for getting there. That's a question of how diversity is maintained in

Re: [FRIAM] How do you auto-create a network diagram?

Miles Parker wrote: On the subject of data analysis, I should mention KNIME -- see: http://www.knime.org/introduction/screenshots. It's really easy to setup data analytics like workflows. This looks a lot like the popular commercial package Pipeline Pilot from Accelrys. On Jul 12, 2010, at

Re: [FRIAM] [sfx: Discuss] The Go Programming Language

Roger Critchlow wrote: I found it even more apparent on this pass through that the language is very well built for the kind of parallel programming that I've become comfortable with in erlang. That is, go makes it very easy to spin off a new thread/process/goroutine and establish

Re: [FRIAM] [sfx: Discuss] The Go Programming Language

Roger Critchlow wrote: I can see that goroutines and channels are appealing programming abstractions, but have a hard time believing they could scale. Seems like the more goroutines you have the more CPU cycles that will be absorbed in switching amongst them.I could see how

Re: [FRIAM] [sfx: Discuss] The Go Programming Language

Owen Densmore wrote: I've been on the Go Nuts group and found that they apparently are fairly slim group Unlike, http://www.haskell.org/pipermail/haskell-cafe/ http://hackage.haskell.org/packages/archive/pkg-list.html

[FRIAM] WebCL + Bitcoin = $$$

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[FRIAM] now that's walking the talk!

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Re: [FRIAM] The Attack on Truth - The Chronicle of Higher Education

“Yeah, well, be disgusted, but try not to get too righteous about it and spare us the expressions of shocked outrage.” As we are coming up on the Tour de France, I’m reminded of the outrage over cheating. What exactly is the question being asked by that competition? Is it to find the

Re: [FRIAM] The Attack on Truth - The Chronicle of Higher Education

Abductively! -Original Message- From: Friam [mailto:friam-boun...@redfish.com] On Behalf Of Steve Smith Sent: Tuesday, June 09, 2015 1:40 PM To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group Subject: Re: [FRIAM] The Attack on Truth - The Chronicle of Higher Education Two great gems

Re: [FRIAM] [ SPAM ] where is the real threat?

Are there not more and less risky sources? If you have source that provides you with high-quality, predictive information, over and over and they are right, should not that individual be allowed less scrutiny than a person that has no track record, or a bad track record? Given finite

Re: [FRIAM] [ SPAM ] where is the real threat?

``That person also could have said something like People have diverse methods for deciding what online content to trust, which would also been more useful. It would imply that some of us are gullible and some of us are skeptical. But I think what they really meant was People are not very

Re: [FRIAM] [ SPAM ] where is the real threat?

Yeah but that process will tend toward the least common denominator. It's why we end up with silly infotainment news programs that emphasize the weather forecast and cute pictures of kids on their birthday. CBS or Comcast cover that, but also the evening news. In various situations such

Re: [FRIAM] Tom Johnson's opinion piece in Santa Fe NewMexican

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/07/magazine/what-silicon-valley-can-learn-from-seoul.html “Much of this was made possible by two decades of enormous public investment. “ From: Friam [mailto:friam-boun...@redfish.com] On Behalf Of Stephen Guerin Sent: Saturday, June 13, 2015 9:12 AM To:

Re: [FRIAM] The Attack on Truth - The Chronicle of Higher Education

Is the failure to perform and encourage independent reasoning the same thing as stifling it? Are not those that presume that role also imposing a potentially stifling control system just like religious codes of conduct? From: Friam [mailto:friam-boun...@redfish.com] On Behalf Of Robert J.

Re: [FRIAM] [ SPAM ] Re: Legal Risks to Creative Innovation and Research at College: NJ Drops Its Investigation of MIT Students

Gary writes: [..] the bigger issue is whether running my software on a users’ computer, for my benefit, and without that user’s knowledge and consent, amounts to stealing. Advertisements waste bandwidth, and JavaScript in advertisements or animated GIFs are in some sense stealing CPU cycles.

Re: [FRIAM] A New Society for the Study of Cultural Evolution

Nick writes: I just think that the whole project looks like it is based on the idea that we can analyze, plan, and reform in the societal domain, and I wasn't sure whether that was your cup of tea? It seems to me the job of a politician is to navigate the values of their constituency and

Re: [FRIAM] DOH!

What am I missing by not being a gamer? Seems like it is like doing exercises from a textbook but with higher production values. From: Friam [mailto:friam-boun...@redfish.com] On Behalf Of Gillian Densmore Sent: Friday, July 03, 2015 7:54 PM To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee

Re: [FRIAM] [ SPAM ] where is the real threat?

If that's what you mean, then, yeah, OK. However, I prefer to call it Chaos Magick or the Left-Hand Path. It's not dark ... just creepy. Discovery of better models can invalidate consensus and orthodoxy. This leads to vested interests being threatened and disruption. A typical response to

Re: [FRIAM] [EXTERNAL] Re: DOH!

A pilot might either fly a physical airplane as part of an exercise or they may fly a simulator. Either way, their actions are translated to a scorekeeping mechanism that is automated. At some point won't these behaviors too be mastered by machine learning? Obviously, I'm not just taking on

Re: [FRIAM] DOH!

Let's say you wanted to, I don't know, _drive_ or maybe juggle ... or simple play flag football with your grandchildren. It seems like multiple object tracking exercise might help. Usually the best way to develop a motor skill, or a particular kind of fitness, is to do that thing. In

Re: [FRIAM] Greek Crisis Philosophy

“Anybody who lived through wwII knows that a heap of trouble can follow when a whole people is thrown to the dogs, as was the German population after WWI. Or for that matter, the American South after the Civil War. I am hoping for a positive response from the EU at this point.” Could

Re: [FRIAM] Fun Times in Ecuador

I live at about 6500 feet elevation, so I don't need much heat, and never any cooling. It's amazing living on the west slope of the Andes. I can drive half an hour and get an increase in temperature of about 10 degrees F, another half an hour for another 10 degrees How about power and

Re: [FRIAM] Fun Times in Ecuador

Gary writes: Fiber in most cities now, nothing in rural areas. I have a good view of a town 20 km away that has fiber, so have wireless connection from my tower to my ISP. “ Is that common, or something you negotiated with the ISP? Marcus

Re: [FRIAM] DOH!

Arlo writes: “It is not some secret mystical human experience, nor does it have to be some weird pop-culture cult, but just another way to spend some free time.” I suppose the distinction I’m making is between open vs. closed or leading vs. following. With so much unknown in the world, why

Re: [FRIAM] Greek Crisis Philosophy

When it comes to U.S. revenue vs. spending, perhaps some states in the red (as opposed to red states!) should worry about getting cut off by Washington? Now, New Mexico has a certain amount of visibility to Washington, but what about Mississippi, Alabama and Kentucky? One might imagine North

Re: [FRIAM] DOH!

Nick writes: It seems to me that in the discussion we are having, the word entertainment cannot go undefined. How do you tell the difference between entertainment and productive work you enjoy. That it makes a profit? Suppose individuals are represented by nodes on a graph, each positioned

Re: [FRIAM] DOH!

/~nickthompson/naturaldesigns/ From: Friam [mailto:friam-boun...@redfish.com] On Behalf Of Marcus Daniels Sent: Sunday, July 05, 2015 6:21 PM To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group Subject: Re: [FRIAM] DOH! Arlo writes: “It is not some secret mystical human experience, nor does

Re: [FRIAM] DOH!

are you committed to the notion that there is no useful distinction to be made between bullshit and productive labor? I suggest that there are at least two definitions of useful. 1) profitable and 2) useful as a tool to do other desirable things.Any creative person knows that #2 can

Re: [FRIAM] Greek Crisis Philosophy

happened in post WWII Germany without the Marshall Plan. N Nicholas S. Thompson Emeritus Professor of Psychology and Biology Clark University http://home.earthlink.net/~nickthompson/naturaldesigns/ From: Friam [mailto:friam-boun...@redfish.com] On Behalf Of Marcus Daniels Sent: Monday, July 06, 2015

Re: [FRIAM] DOH!

Yup, one of the arguments in the list of reasons-gaming-is-good TED talks was that they can be engaging as an educational tool. But you're clearly just trying to horrify me now.:-) -Original Message- From: Friam [mailto:friam-boun...@redfish.com] On Behalf Of glen Sent: Tuesday,

Re: [FRIAM] [EXTERNAL] Re: unikernels?

OK. But there are 2 types of commands (that may not crash): 1) those that are ill-formed and 2) those that are well-formed but not expected/predicted by the developers. Ill-formed commands that still don't crash may have partial effects, right? For example, in a lazy language, if the

Re: [FRIAM] [ SPAM ] where is the real threat?

Glen writes, Anyway, my point is basically that even the majority-vs-minority conception is in the domain of Light. To be Dark means appreciating the entire (occult) mechanism, but especially focusing on the rarely used pathways. I'll distinguish between popular and powerful pathways. A

Re: [FRIAM] [ SPAM ] Re: [ SPAM ] where is the real threat?

I recently met/visited Glen en-vivo and can report that there were no pentacles or other obviously occult gear (or tattoos) evident. I refer to my prior remark about the long game. First they build trust.. Run! Run! Marcus

Re: [FRIAM] [ SPAM ] Re: [ SPAM ] where is the real threat?

In this use of the term occult, I suppose we are meaning both operating in (otherwise) uncharted territories as well as discovering new dimensional/modalities. Dynamically binding this word Glen likes to the probable/apparent meaning. There's no point in fighting it. :-) Marcus

Re: [FRIAM] A New Society for the Study of Cultural Evolution

As for the yammering (here and elsewhere) about the activism, I can only repeat that objective truth is also illusory. So long as we see these organizations in evolutionary terms, then there is no problem. But then why object when thieves act like thieves? (Because there's some species of

Re: [FRIAM] A New Society for the Study of Cultural Evolution

There's only 1 reason to interfere/intervene in the milieu around you, that is to participate. Is a search engine a participant in people's web browsing? One can define it that way, but that's not the usual business model.The usual model is to watch and learn, and sell their

Re: [FRIAM] [ SPAM ] Re: A New Society for the Study of Cultural Evolution

Given the personalization algorithms deployed by the major search engines, its hard *not* to see the search engine as a participant in browsing. If the search engine could pass a Turing test, then ok. Marcus FRIAM Applied

Re: [FRIAM] A New Society for the Study of Cultural Evolution

Anyone (professional or nonprofessional) who is trying to accomplish positive cultural change in the real world and who would like to base their efforts on cultural evolutionary theory. What is positive? What if culture is nothing more than inertia and mean reversion that inhibits

Re: [FRIAM] A New Society for the Study of Cultural Evolution

Robert wrote: The 2014 Annual Report names names for the Board of Directors See https://evolution-institute.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/NP_EI_2014_AnnualReport_web-printout.pdf; Gosh, can't we put science in one bin, politics in another, and religion somewhere else?Has it occurred to

Re: [FRIAM] A New Society for the Study of Cultural Evolution

So, your claim that it's not about objective reality is simply false. Take away your assumption of objective reality and your precise terminology argument falls apart. The point is it doesn't matter if the scientific method reveals a model that is precisely what nature is. The illusion of

Re: [FRIAM] A New Society for the Study of Cultural Evolution

was just killing time until my tests came back. -Original Message- From: Friam [mailto:friam-boun...@redfish.com] On Behalf Of Marcus Daniels Sent: Tuesday, June 30, 2015 4:15 PM To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group Subject: Re: [FRIAM] A New Society for the Study

Re: [FRIAM] A New Society for the Study of Cultural Evolution

What can precise terminology mean without any stable referent? Precision _is_ about objective reality at least to some extent. The referent could be different sorts of things, like waves or particles. The true nature of things forever remains unknown, but self-consistent precise

Re: [FRIAM] [EXTERNAL] Re: How brand-new words are spreading across America

Useless anecdote: I opened the fridge one day and noticed the CO2 regulator on the keg was broken. I asked my office mate about it. He said: Yeah, the regulator broke. I asked: It just spontaneously broke all by itself? He didn't respond. And the keg _in the office_? It just got there

Re: [FRIAM] unikernels?

And don't overlook the fine work done in the Northwest.. http://galois.com/project/halvm/ ..and in fact going back some time.. http://www-spin.cs.washington.edu/ -Original Message- From: Friam [mailto:friam-boun...@redfish.com] On Behalf Of glen ep ropella Sent: Tuesday, August 11,

Re: [FRIAM] [EXTERNAL] Re: unikernels?

: 505-238-9359 P: 505-951-6084 NIPR: rcpa...@sandia.govmailto:rcpa...@sandia.gov SIPR: rcpar...@sandia.doe.sgov.govmailto:rcpar...@sandia.doe.sgov.gov (send NIPR reminder) JWICS: dopa...@doe.ic.govmailto:dopa...@doe.ic.gov (send NIPR reminder) On Aug 11, 2015, at 11:38 AM, Marcus Daniels wrote

Re: [FRIAM] [EXTERNAL] Re: unikernels?

Glen writes: o open-ended evolution (and/or evolution of evolution), broached at ECAL -- the answer I kept giving, that nobody really responded to, includes self-hosted languages (simple circularity) and cycles in hosting (L_0 hosts L_1 which then hosts L_0). Let's say a device managing a

Re: [FRIAM] appropriate content for FRIAM

Insisting on any one topic would be the intent of a reductionist.Now back to philosophy! -Original Message- From: Friam [mailto:friam-boun...@redfish.com] On Behalf Of Nick Thompson Sent: Thursday, August 13, 2015 5:01 PM To: 'The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group'

Re: [FRIAM] [EXTERNAL] Re: unikernels?

. It seems like strongly typed, lazy (not just non-strict) eval languages capable of higher order logic are the right platform for finding minimal holes of maximal interestingness. On 08/11/2015 02:05 PM, Marcus Daniels wrote: The usual problem that occurs in non-strict languages are thunk leaks.I

Re: [FRIAM] [ SPAM ] Re: [EXTERNAL] Re: How brand-new words are spreading across America

Another wrinkle in this is how the “businessman’s tragedy of the commons” gets reflected in the thinking of employees. Employees, when faced with enduring inequality, may well object to progress, out of a sense it isn’t fair. I find this really remarkable. An employer that wants the employees

Re: [FRIAM] Pandoc

You can feel good about using Pandoc. It’s written in Haskell! From: Friam [mailto:friam-boun...@redfish.com] On Behalf Of Owen Densmore Sent: Monday, July 27, 2015 11:13 AM To: Complexity Coffee Group Subject: [FRIAM] Pandoc Some of us have been using Atom text editor. Its a bit crazy, built

Re: [FRIAM] Pandoc

, Marcus Daniels mar...@snoutfarm.commailto:mar...@snoutfarm.com wrote: You can feel good about using Pandoc. It’s written in Haskell! From: Friam [mailto:friam-boun...@redfish.commailto:friam-boun...@redfish.com] On Behalf Of Owen Densmore Sent: Monday, July 27, 2015 11:13 AM To: Complexity Coffee

Re: [FRIAM] Interesting Link

Gary writes: “As part of the legislation to introduce its own digital currency, it also made it illegal to use any other digital currency, e.g. Bitcoin.” An obvious motive would be population control, and secondarily as a new surveillance mechanism. Displacing cash with digital currency

Re: [FRIAM] Interesting Link

Eric writes: Wow, thanks for all that! “4. Back to mechanism: If the above are correct, then any sub-system of the economy that depends on a bitcoin-like digital currency will be subject to the stresses that come from an inflexible-supply money such as gold, and those will need to be

Re: [FRIAM] speculative Q

“I ask because it'd seem like a business wouldn't want to use something where they couldn't see the code (for instance).” Because employers and employees are different people, and the individuals that would want to see the code details (and could interpret and act on them) tend to be employees

Re: [FRIAM] [EXTERNAL] Re: speculative Q

“ BTW, the difference is that I've rarely actively looked for something new - it always seems to land in my lap.” Sometimes I think circles such as yours and the people Glen is talking about just must be kept apart from one another, if they don’t avoid each other naturally.That’s about as

Re: [FRIAM] speculative Q

Interesting vs. boring is orthogonal. So, there's interesting-hard and boring-hard. I'll accept money for either type of work, though I much prefer interesting-hard ... obviously. How about engaging, imaginative, educational, or surprising work vs. detail work. Doing detail work may be

Re: [FRIAM] speculative Q

. Are you suggesting that it is an example of community for community's sake? On Jul 14, 2015, at 4:15 PM, glen wrote: On 07/14/2015 02:58 PM, Marcus Daniels wrote: Sometimes I think circles such as yours and the people Glen is talking about just must be kept apart from one another, if they don’t

Re: [FRIAM] speculative Q

The last one, in particular, seems to imply that those who are most likely to think a community really has a mission (as opposed to the illusion of a mission) are the most extreme of the bunch, the hard-liners, the obnoxious ones. To tie this back to the original question, I was thinking of

Re: [FRIAM] speculative Q

Glen writes: But, again, you're being very binary. Practically, each member will be a member in part because they're aligned ideologically, in part because they contribute to the mission, and in part for promotional/egotistical reasons. Those sets aren't disjoint, regardless of what the

Re: [FRIAM] a week on just linux...

Server procedures written in R would be pretty neat trick for data miners.. http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2015/05/r-in-sql-server.html From: Friam [mailto:friam-boun...@redfish.com] On Behalf Of Arlo Barnes Sent: Friday, July 17, 2015 4:26 PM To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity

Re: [FRIAM] speculative Q

But the point I was trying to make with those 3 articles still stands: that people who join communities for community's sake are not necessarily only drags on, disrupters of the system. They provide something like a dampening baffle that traps and eliminates the noise of the extremists, the

Re: [FRIAM] How Text Editing is like Riding a Bike, was: speculative Q

Steve writes: Really, text editing is just like riding a bike... you don't forget what that first real bike feels like, and it IS fun to wipe the dust off of it and cruise down the boardwalk ogling the young and the reckless with their toned tans, but from one old fart to the rest of you,

Re: [FRIAM] 'Playing' Versioned Source Repositories

Magit for Emacs should come close to this. It can control git to apply patch sets, e.g. in time order. Of course, most developers will commit working code changes, not all the details of their edits. The deltas will be batch edits, not keystroke by keystroke, or line by line. But it

Re: [FRIAM] hmmm we'll see

The Star Trek I remember involved powerful adversaries such as Romulans, Borg, and Klingons. It was hardly everything worked out. There were still the other guys, just that they were sufficiently alien to be defined away as a part of the day-to-day economy. Sometimes it wasn't clear who

Re: [FRIAM] [EXTERNAL] Applets · NetLogo/NetLogo Wiki

“Having said that well I for one can only speculate why java has/had a history of not caching on” Wot? http://www.tiobe.com/index.php/content/paperinfo/tpci/index.html Btw, Web Assembly is just mimicking what .NET (and Mono) have been able to do for 10 years. From: Friam

Re: [FRIAM] speculative Q

On that same front, Gary's right about that last 20%. But user-facing software has a much harder last 20% than what happens behind the scenes _because_ those occult tools are allowed to be very focused, tight, and single purpose, whereas user-facing tools have to handle, ameliorate, shunt,

[FRIAM] surprised no one mentioned this

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Re: [FRIAM] The death of Joe Traub

http://www.dwavesys.com/press-releases/los-alamos-national-laboratory-orders-1000-qubit-d-wave-2x-quantum-computer -Original Message- From: Friam [mailto:friam-boun...@redfish.com] On Behalf Of Pamela McCorduck Sent: Saturday, August 29, 2015 11:43 AM To: The Friday Morning Applied

Re: [FRIAM] FW: Meat

Surely someone has collected the digital elevation models (DEM) to find potential growth areas near areas that would be impacted by such a water rise? You know, as investment opportunities. (Or to systematically short-sell them.) New Orleans lost half their population after Katrina..

Re: [FRIAM] Fwd: Heck Yes Markdown

Hmm, a browser can support different MIME types, this is just another one. I mean, one wouldn’t convert JPEG to HTML. From: Friam [mailto:friam-boun...@redfish.com] On Behalf Of Owen Densmore Sent: Thursday, October 15, 2015

Re: [FRIAM] [EXTERNAL] Static Site Generator

If you like LaTeX (I can't imagine), you shouldn't stand for converting to HTML! http://manuels.github.io/texlive.js/ -Original Message- From: Friam [mailto:friam-boun...@redfish.com] On Behalf Of Russell Standish Sent: Monday, October 19, 2015 6:32 PM To: The Friday Morning Applied

Re: [FRIAM] [EXTERNAL] Static Site Generator

didn’t work for me: kpathsea: Running mktexpk --mfmode / --bdpi 72 --mag 1+0/72 --dpi 72 cmr6 (see the transcript file for additional information) kpathsea: pipe(): Function not implemented kpathsea: Appending font creation commands to missfont.log.) —Barry On 19 Oct 2015, at 19:25, Ma

Re: [FRIAM] Static Site Generator

“I have decided to narrow it down to node+javascript, of which there are plenty.” https://github.com/IonicaBizau/node-cobol/blob/master/README.md FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's

Re: [FRIAM] Static Site Generator

I liked this quote: “In 1989, he declined joining the Mosaic browser team with his preference for knowledge/wisdom creation over distributing information ... a problem he says is still not solved by today's internet.” I remember seeing Mosaic and HTML and thinking exactly the same thing back

Re: [FRIAM] My charity is more effective than your charity!

We went to dinner at a friend's place on the 4th. I explained how happy my oncologist and my research nurse were that a few of my periaortic lymph nodes had shrunk by a miniscule amount between the last scan (6 months ago) and this latest one. And I (again) floated my skepticism, which is

Re: [FRIAM] My charity is more effective than your charity!

: Friam [mailto:friam-boun...@redfish.com] On Behalf Of glen ep ropella Sent: Wednesday, July 08, 2015 8:40 AM To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group Subject: Re: [FRIAM] My charity is more effective than your charity! On 07/07/2015 07:06 PM, Marcus Daniels wrote: OsiriX is good for MRIs

Re: [FRIAM] My charity is more effective than your charity!

I want to warn you all (speaking of 3d modeling) that I have been for years (as Steve G. will testify) trying to get somebody to do 3D visualizations of the interaction of air masses, particularly in the region around and just east of the Sangres, where cold dry Canadian air masses slosh down

Re: [FRIAM] My charity is more effective than your charity!

to write that.. -Original Message- From: Friam [mailto:friam-boun...@redfish.com] On Behalf Of glen Sent: Tuesday, July 07, 2015 4:36 PM To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group Subject: Re: [FRIAM] My charity is more effective than your charity! On 07/07/2015 02:47 PM, Marcus

Re: [FRIAM] github pages...

Bullet Physics is a nice way to represent an environment and to represent the agents. Physical interaction between agents and/or static objects is directly reported. Just compile with emscripten if you want it in a web browser.. https://github.com/kripken/ammo.js From: Friam

Re: [FRIAM] Mike Agar in SF NewMexican

Mike Agar wrote: “The water news tells me that adaptive technologies for aquifer recharge and wastewater recycling are a growth industry, the technology improving by leaps and bounds and now being used in several places.” Eldorado is less than

Re: [FRIAM] What is WebAssembly? The Dawn of a New Era

Not a technical difference, but a social difference. We had to go through the phase of Java failing in this space, and JavaScript not being the right tool for the job. -Original Message- From: Friam [mailto:friam-boun...@redfish.com] On Behalf Of glen ep ropella Sent: Tuesday,

Re: [FRIAM] Why The Internet Needs IPFS Before It’s Too Late

There's also StorJ which is already tradable. Marcus [http://storj.io/img/logo-blue.svg] Storj - The Future of Cloud Storage Take back control of your data. Secure, autonomous, blockchain based, decentralized

Re: [FRIAM] Good climate change skeptics

"Defending a subtle concept of faith to this crowd is like arguing for moderation instead of abstinence at an AA meeting." As long as they can be held in solitary confinement, and prevented from organizing, they can have all of the "moderation" they want! But if as they have organized, then

Re: [FRIAM] Good climate change skeptics

, 2015 1:10 PM To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group <friam@redfish.com> Subject: Re: [FRIAM] Good climate change skeptics On 09/23/2015 11:38 AM, Marcus Daniels wrote: > As long as they can be held in solitary confinement, and prevented from > organizing, they

Re: [FRIAM] I am Cancer, hear me roar! (with segue into Chimerism and Epigenetics)

Well, I assume that if my connectome could be scanned with sufficient fidelity, and stored in a computer, that it would be possible, someday, to both query my memories, but also to measure emotional responses, in silico. Probably even start and stop consciousness.The trick would be

Re: [FRIAM] [EXTERNAL] Re: I am Cancer, hear me roar! (with segue into Chimerism and Epigenetics)

e roar! (with segue into Chimerism and Epigenetics) It would be much more convenient to store your head in a jar, a la Futurama. And more comedic. Ray Parks - Original Message - From: Marcus Daniels [mailto:mar...@snoutfarm.com] Sent: Thursday, September 24, 2015 09:33 AM To: The

Re: [FRIAM] [EXTERNAL] Re: I am Cancer, hear me roar! (with segue into Chimerism and Epigenetics)

"Ray Kurzweil will be rolling over in his memory bank one day when we talk like this!" Don't confuse your memmove(3) and memcpy(3).Big trouble! Marcus FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St.

Re: [FRIAM] I am Cancer, hear me roar! (with segue into Chimerism and Epigenetics)

Complexity Coffee Group <friam@redfish.com> Subject: Re: [FRIAM] I am Cancer, hear me roar! (with segue into Chimerism and Epigenetics) On 09/24/2015 09:54 AM, Marcus Daniels wrote: > Let's assume the bad behavior has nothing to do with the "increased mental > acuity". What

Re: [FRIAM] I am Cancer, hear me roar! (with segue into Chimerism and Epigenetics)

"I don't get it? Are you saying you had STEM cell/bone marrow transplant from this guy and were afraid his genome might be at fault in his bad habits" Hypothetically, certain protein mixes could signal to somatic cells to unspool their nucleosome (to some extent) back to the form more like a

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